Colour Compass KAL

I can’t believe that almost three months have gone by since the release of our Colour Compass project!

During those three months, we’ve been running a KAL over in our Ravelry group, in which anyone is welcome to participate, knitting with the yarn in their Colour Compass calendar and / or knitting patterns from the Colour Compass collection.

The KAL will shortly be coming to an end – with a closing date after this coming weekend (18th). If you would like to share your Colour Compass project(s), and be eligible for one of our fabulous KDD prizes, please post your project(s) in the KAL thread in the KDD Ravelry group, or (if you do not use Ravelry) email a wee photo of your project(s) to Maylin at help@katedaviesdesigns.com

Your project does not have to be complete (in progress pictures of larger projects are acceptable) and nor do you have to have knitted one of the six patterns we provided. In fact, we are especially interested to see your different creative uses of the 24 shades of yarn!

The whole idea of Colour Compass is to encourage individual creative experimentation, and it has been fantastic to see your beautiful, colourful projects appearing in the KAL, together with many interesting modifications of the original patterns we included.

Because she is part of the KDD team, and therefore ineligible for a KAL prize, I can show you one such brilliant modification, the work of our very own Maylin. Maylin knitted one of the original Endways samples which were modelled for the project, and liked the easy, wearable shape so much that she immediately set to work on another version.

Rather than knitting in the narrow 2×2 stripes the original pattern calls for, Maylin created a glorious colour blocked version, (Less End-Ways, ha ha) whose broad, bold stripes really show off thirteen of the twenty four shades in the Milarrochy Tweed palette.

Maylin knitted the hem, cuffs and neck of her second version in Backen (for which she cracked open a second ball) but managed to knit the body and both sleeves from single balls of her other 12 shades, which are as follows: Thrift, Cranachan, Hare, Asphodel, Ardlui, Horseback Brown, Snapdragon, Lochan, Ardnamurchan, Garth, Foxglove and Gloamin’.

I love the colours at the shoulders of Maylin’s pullover particularly – with their unexpected and very beautiful combination of Thrift, Cranachan, Hare and Ardlui. I’m so taken with it that there might, in fact, be an Endways rather like this in my future. Thanks for the inspiration, Maylin!

So whatever you’ve been knitting with your Colour Compass yarn, please follow Maylin’s example and take a wee photo of your completed work, or work in progress, and share the details in the KDD Ravelry group. We’ll be looking at all the projects next week and awarding PRIZES!

The fact that the Colour Compass KAL is drawing to a close means that a new big project is now on the horizon. I’ve been working away at this project for many months now, and am extremely excited about it. I can’t say much right now, but I can reveal that though this project will follow our familiar KDD club format, it will also include some unfamiliar (and very intriguing) new elements. Why the mystery? Soon, all shall be revealed!